Role of Chronic Infection in Human Disease

Purpose

This working group gives researchers the opportunity to come together and discuss their current research and to form collaborations to test new hypotheses that no one or two groups alone could tackle.  Issues of concern are many but at a minimum include:

1. how our interaction with infectious agents produces diseases that are an indirect consequence of the infection (e.g., autoimmune disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, etc.);
2. how to prevent the immune system from responding inappropriately to infection acquired naturally or through vaccines; and
3. how our interaction with infectious agents changes with age.

The group generally meets on the first Wednesday of the month at 3pm in Beckman, Room B200.

Members